Saltcellar



Janu 311, 1950 KOLB 2,495,899

SALTCELLAR Filed Jan 52:5, 194.7

6 fi I 4 I N V]; N TOR. Geogqe D-a Kalb ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 31, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SALTCELLAR George D. Kolb, Baltimore, Md.

Application January 23, 1947, Serial No. 723,741

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to an improved salt cellar and more especially to the cap or crown therefor so constructed as to provide agitating means inside the cap and about the dispensing holes so that any salt saturated with moisture and clogging the holes may be loosened and removed.

The characteristic of salt to harden and cake in the cellar during moist and humid weather is well known and the general method of relieving this situation or condition is to rap the salt cellar on the table. This method damages the table and the cellar and ofter does not accomplish the purpose. By the use of the cap of my invention the salt caking the openings may be loosened by thumb movement of the agitator and the caked salt will be free from the openings.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention according to the best mode I have thus far devised, but it will be understood that various changes and alterations may be made in the exemplified structure within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the cellar of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view partially broken away for illustration.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view at line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the agitator.

Fig. 5 is a view of the cap looking at the dispensing holes.

Fig. 6 is a view looking at the diametrically opposite point of the cap showing the slot for the agitator eye bolt.

Referring now to the drawings I employ in the present preferred embodiment of my invention, a salt cellar 2 of suitable material having a neck portion 4 threaded at 6.

The cap 8 is substantially cylindrical and is closed at ID. The portion I2 is threaded to engage the neck of the cellar and between the threaded portion [2 and the closed end I0 I provide a series of apertures I4 through which the salt may be dispensed. The portion of the cap in which the apertures are located is circular and the inner wall is smooth and within this portion I place split resilient ring [6, the ends of which are spaced to uncover the apertures and permit ring by the thumb and the ends of the ring alternately scraping over the apertures will loosen and remove any salt clogged and hardened therein.

The cap embodying the structure of my invention may be applied to any existing salt cellar and will result in the improved dispensing of the salt and the elimination of the annoyance of clogged apertures.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A dispensing cap for a condiment container comprising a substantially cylindrical sleeve member, an end wall closing one end thereof, a threaded portion on the opposite end of said sleeve member for the reception of a condiment container, a group of condiment-dispensing apertures through the side wall of said cylindrical member extending perpendicularly to the 1ongitudinal axis thereof, a split resilient ring within said sleeve member between the end wall and the threaded portion, said ring being inherently expansible against the internal walls of said sleeve member, the free ends of said rin when in said sleeve member being maintained by the walls thereof spaced apart a distance substantially equal to the circumferential extent of said group of condiment-dispensing apertures, whereby said ring may be oscillated about the sleeve axis to cover or uncover said apertures to regulate the flow of the condiment therethrough, a slot in the walls of said sleeve member and a manuallyoperable means secured to said ring for oscillating the same about the longitudinal axis of said sleeve member, said means extending through said slot and adapted to restrict oscillation of said ring in a fixed plane.

GEORGE D. KOLB.

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